Example Sentences

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Red Dead Redemption The new Grand Theft Horse was whetting a few appetites on the box this week, with thoughts of an online NaN posse being gunned down by all-comers just too much to take.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2010

He was whetting the point of his dagger, and did not hear her approach, until she stood beside him.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Fortune was whetting the darts she soon intended to hurl.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

He was hardening his seres, he was waiting for his wings to grow, he was whetting his beak; we should see him soar at last and shake the thunder from his wings.

From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by Lowell, James Russell

He was not thinking at all of the stones when he scrutinized them, still less was he thinking of them when he was accomplishing his task: he was whetting his knife. 

From What to Do? by Hapgood, Isabel Florence